Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
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One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.